Black Bean and Corn Salad

Summer food: because you can’t actually spend 12 hours a day loitering in air-conditioned coffee shops. Because laying on the kitchen floor and humming the same NoFX song for hours at a time will get to you at a certain point. Because humans cannot survive on carrot sticks and ice water alone. Because who even has air conditioning?!*

This black bean and corn salad really needs no introduction. I mean, it’s black beans. And corn. And tomatoes. And avocado. And lime juice. And all the other awesome stuff that belongs in a salad like this. If that doesn’t sound AWESOME to you, get outta my kitchen, because this is one of my favorite summer dishes of all time. Plus, if you ate nothing else this summer, I’m pretty sure this stuff would totally keep you alive! At least, I reaaaally hope it does, since that’s my plan.

Super, amazingly good salad! I made a few changes though. Had only 1 can of black beans, so I used it as well as a can of white navy beans. Instead of choosing between the mustard, vinegar and cumin, I used all 3. Used some lemon juice with the lime juice since I ran out of limes before i had 1/4 cup (didn’t actually measure…just eyeballed.) Really wonderful. Will be taking to my family labor day picnic.